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No infinite scroll. If you've seen it all, you've seen it all. There's the cognitive overload theory which talks about the maximum amount of information our working memory can process at any given time - a big reason why we feel "brain rot". You can of course blame people for not closing their apps whenever they feel a bit overwhelmed, but we often do not realize we are feeling that way because of what we are doing at that moment. The blame should be with big tech that have their apps purposefully engineered to keep us scrolling. We should feel no shame that it is very hard to resist this intentionally placed urge. There must be a systemic, intentional move towards limiting the amount of information we can consume.
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The availability for chronologically sorted timelines. No algorithm deciding what you should see first, or what is more important. This also makes it easier to catch up with stuff you have seen before.
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Some sort of closing time. Just like TV would get boring after a certain hour of the day, there should be nothing interesting to see there anymore after 10PM (very arbitrary hour, could be earlier or later). It would be even better if the app icon on your homepage would vanish, and only appear again whenever "opening hours" start again.
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You can only comment after you have watched the full video. It is so tempting, and so human-like, to already check the comments before you have watched the entirety of the video. This way, it is very easy to already form an opinion before watching a video, which makes it all very friction-less. No more of that. You have to watch the full video first, before you can comment on it.
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You can only comment on videos after you have created a few posts yourself. Not 100% yet sure about the feasibility of this point (because you can of course just create fake or meaningless comments), but I am aiming for more vulnerability and less lurking. No anonymous trolls.
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No (fully) AI generated content allowed on social platforms. Not using AI should be a flex. Either AI generated media should be watermarked, or content has to be filmed/edited/posted within the app.
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Maybe more specific, niche social media apps that are set towards people with a certain interest or hobby, instead of a few big apps that are aiming to reach everyone.
